The Green Data Center: Where Ecology Meets Economy
[ Source: Wipro Technologies ]
October 2008-
This paper critically examines ways to maximize your Data Center’s efficiency by providing you with a green perspective of your computing environment. Once you are able to look at your entire Data Center environment, it becomes clear how you can make it operate leaner and more efficiently. The way forward is to follow a green path where no processing cycle goes to waste. The result allows you to provide the same level of information from ....
Remediate Backup Tapes to Control Liability & Cost
[ Source: Index Engines ]
September 2009-
In the past it was far too expensive and difficult to understand the detailed content of old backup tapes. Discovery efforts required that the content to be restored first, and then analyzed in order to determine what to keep and what can be purged. Restoring thousands or tens of thousands of tapes was out of the question. It would take too much time, money and legacy infrastructure. As a result IT departments have let the ....
AutoVirt 3.0 For Unstructured Data Management
[ Source: AutoVirt ]
November 2009-
Download this Webinar to hear storage expert Klavs Landberg speak about AutoVirt’s latest technology – the AutoVirt 3.0 storage management platform for unstructured data on Windows. This release helps you easily implement disaster protection, data life cycle management, and data distribution, building upon a robust foundation of data migration and consolidation capabilities. Klavs delves into AutoVirt’s core architecture and review the storage challenges tackled uniquely by AutoVirt through an easy, plug-and-play design that allows users ....
Modeling the Virtual Data Center
[ Source: Elastra ]
November 2009-
The transition to cloud computing is not simply about outsourcing or applying old technology to new IT processes, it signals a shift in how IT is designed and delivered. The ultimate value of cloud computing is realized by significantly reducing lead times needed to deliver critical business services. And, to realize this value, a new approach to modeling the new “virtual” data center should be considered.
The quickest path to model-driven automation within the ....
Not All Data is Created Equal: Designing and Managing a Tiered Storage Environment
[ Source: Emtec ]
June 2008-
Demands for storage capacity have been exponentially increasing across multiple industries, and IT departments are too rapidly reacting to these demands—purchasing hardware and software before assessing what they actually need.
While IT departments will likely need to invest in some additional storage during this time, it is critical they first get a real handle on the storage assets that they already have before engaging in reactive spending. In far too many ....
Alternatives for Securing Virtual Networks
[ Source: Altor Networks ]
April 2009-
View the "Alternatives for Securing Virtual Networks" white paper which describes virtualization security threats and challenges with virtual networks and cloud computing. Add defense-in-depth security to your virtualized data center with Altor VF virtual firewall.
An increasingly large share of data center network traffic is occurring between VMs within a virtualization server - on the “virtual network” - yet VM and network administrators have minimal ability to see or control inter-VM communication. By ....
Virtualization Overview
[ Source: Global Knowledge ]
August 2008-
Among the leading business challenges confronting CIOs and IT managers today are: cost-effective utilization of IT infrastructure; responsiveness in supporting new business initiatives; and flexibility in adapting to organizational changes. Driving an additional sense of urgency is the continued climate of IT budget constraints and more stringent regulatory requirements. Virtualization is a fundamental technological innovation that allows skilled IT managers to deploy creative solutions to such business challenges. This white paper provides an overview of ....
Effectively Securing Virtualized Data Centers
[ Source: Apani ]
June 2008-
For security directors at large organizations, securing virtualized data centers is a major concern. Server virtualization offers several benefits including better total cost of ownership, increased operational efficiencies and more flexible management capabilities. But server virtualization may also increase security risks. Virtual machines (VMs) themselves are no less secure than their physical counterparts, but organizations often apply different procedures to their deployment and management. In addition, server virtualization while ....
EMC and VMware: Building a Virtualized Infrastructure
[ Source: EMC ]
February 2008-
The server virtualization market is red hot, forcing companies to accelerate infrastructure design decisions. EMC and VMware have joined forces to help customers recognize the benefits of virtualization throughout the IT organization and are determined to continue to return time and money to the business. It's about time EMC started to leverage its portfolio with VMware.
The current adoption rate of server virtualization solutions is nothing short of phenomenal. Server virtualization ....
ESG Lab Validation Report: EMC Avamar Revolutionizing Backup and Recovery
[ Source: EMC ]
September 2008-
Rapid adoption of virtual server technology and the challenges associated with the backup and recovery of ever-growing stores of information located within branch and remote offices is causing a number of IT managers to reevaluate their data protection strategies. New backup and recovery methods which use data de-duplication technology to reduce capacity and network bandwidth requirements are being deployed to keep up with explosive data growth, shrinking backup windows, compliance initiatives and security concerns. This ....